Propeller Flaps for Lower Back Defects

Edwin Morrison; Jocelyn Lu; Francis Graziano; Eldon Mah; Farooq Shahzad

Propeller Flaps for Lower Back Defects

Eplasty. 2023 Jan 9:23:QA2. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Edwin Morrison¹, Jocelyn Lu², Francis Graziano², Eldon Mah³, Farooq Shahzad¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
² Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
³ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 36793659
PMCID: PMC9891771

Abstract

What are the reconstructive challenges of the lumbosacral area?What are the goals and principles of reconstructing the lumbosacral defect?What are propeller flaps?How are propeller flaps used in the lumbosacral region?

Keywords: Free Flap; Infection; Lumbosacral; Propeller Flap; Radiation.

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